> I have yet to find a single programmer on Windows that acts this way Ouch, thanks.
For the record, I have been programming for 30 years, professionally since the mid-80s - I can program in around a dozen languages, and have built some fairly big and complex systems over the years, so I do consider myself a _programmer_. But I grew up on languages like Pascal, Delphi, Modula-2, JavaScript, ActionScript and various Basic variants, and consequently learned from the start to count on languages and development-tools that work "out of the box", where you can focus on solving problems, rather than getting distracted by a lot of environment issues and manual setup. Growing up on said languages, I also never had any love or interest for languages like C or C++, where you have to get distracted by things like memory management and other low-level cruft. I think Nim holds a lot of promise for programmers like me - it appears to be a language with multiple "levels", kind of like Scala or Rust, where you can choose to program like I would program in Java or C#, where I don't have to get distracted by things like memory-management or threading issue, but where someone else who needs or wants to can go to more low-level features and manage memory etc. if they need to. Anyhow, whether it's a "setup.exe" or step-by-step instructions, for "idiots" like me who just want to try out the language and use it to solve problems, things surely could be improved. It shouldn't take hours for someone like me to get a working language and editor installation set up. Nim surely appeals to more "hardcore" programmers because of it's depth, but I think you have potentially a much larger audience among people who use more "humble" languages like PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, etc. - all languages that even lazy Windows users can more or less click to install and dive in. I think Nim has the potential to compete with all of those. If we can figure out how to install it, haha
